Re: Brizzled: A Scala build tool

grh — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:21:27 -0000

In the groovy world, gant is to ant as gradle is to maven, except that where maven locks you pretty much in to the maven way, gradle provides sensible convention-over-configuration defaults but makes it trivial to change them.

It's a piece of work.

I can recommend you look at it, especially the sort of two-phase lifecycle it has, where first builds a di-graph of targets BEFORE any are executed. The script can generate or modify tasks and dependencies on the fly, and when it's all done, you get a chance to look at the graph before execution. Also it uses apache ivy natively for dependency mgmt, although it has a groovy dsl to configure it if you're XML averse (as I am).

All configured in pure groovy code.

Now a system that was similar, but configured in SCALA, and which in addition takes advantage of scala to be as parallel as possible, now THAT would be sweet.

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Re: Brizzled: A Scala build tool